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Author : M Schiavo
language : en
Publisher: Avon
Release Date : 1998-04-01
Flying Blind Fly Safe written by M Schiavo and has been published by Avon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-01 with Political Science categories.
Featuring new, updated information, a paperback edition of a best-seller by the outspoken former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation offers readers the vital information they need to travel more safely by air. Reprint.
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Author : Kenneth L. Chastain Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-02-11
Flying Blind written by Kenneth L. Chastain Jr. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-11 with Fiction categories.
Flying Blind is a novel of one man’s hazardous journey in South Asia during the Second World War. Flight Officer–Service Pilot Roger Caron joined the army air force even though he was too old to be drafted. He simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to fly military aircraft. Like many men his age, he became hooked on aviation by Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 solo transatlantic flight. Caron started out flying gliders and pulling weeds for flying lessons. He learned all he could about repairing and piloting airplanes—it was the focus of his life. Through a flying buddy, he met a young girl who worked her way into his heart. She had some health issues and was very young, only sixteen, but they ended up getting married anyway. His passion for aviation often kept them apart while he traveled from place to place, advancing his career. So after he joined the army air force and was sent to war in China, Burma, and India, the separation was just another of many. It was made bearable for Caron because he would be flying—and flying was in his blood. After spending many months enduring the hazards of war, life back home reached across the seas and grabbed him. The story begins with his landing in Calcutta near the end of September 1944. His treacherous assignment was to fly army cargo planes over the towering Himalayas, referred to as the Hump. As a member of the Army Air Force Air Transport Command, he would be supplying war materials and troops to China in support of the Allied effort against the Japanese invaders. Unfortunately, aircraft of that era were poorly suited for the dangerous weather of the cloud-enshrouded mountains, made worse by the region’s lack of sophisticated navigational aids. An equally threatening hazard was the occasional, but lethal Japanese fighter out hunting for unarmed Allied transports. Caron would need skill, tenacity, and a healthy dose of luck to survive his coming ordeal. After a quick turnaround in Calcutta, he found himself a passenger on a C-47 transport on his way to his first duty station in Myitkyina, Burma. This remote outpost had just recently been retaken from the Japanese at great cost by General Stilwell’s army. While landing in Myitkyina, Caron’s plane was strafed by a Japanese Zero and crash-landed. He and the rest of those onboard survived the ordeal, but it was an ominous welcome to his first duty station in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of Operations. On his first flight over the Hump, Caron was copilot on a war-weary olive drab C-47 piloted by one of his tent mates, Bill Lackey, whom he had first met in Myitkyina. Like Caron, Lackey was from Los Angeles, and they’d quickly become friends. Their volatile cargo was high-octane gasoline carried in fifty-five-gallon drums. On this passage through the towering mountains, ice formed on the wings, hailstones hammered the fuselage, and the plane lost altitude. When the crew was nearly ready to bail out, an updraft shot them up and over the dangerous peaks to safety. This trip foretold what most would be like—flying blind through the clouds, on instruments only. On what later became known as Black Friday, Caron and his crew experienced a harrowing ride over the Hump. Upon arrival in Kunming, China, the plane captain tried to delay the return flight to Burma because of the extreme weather and the multitude of maydays called in from other aircraft. Permission was denied, but they were able to stall until the Hump was declared closed. Many planes and crews were lost in the killer storm, and his tent mate and friend, Bill Lackey, was one of those missing. Caron’s luck ran out following a promotion to plane captain. Sitting in the left-hand seat of the cockpit, he and his crew flew mules to China where, just before landing, one of the mules stuck its head through a window. Despite concern of the effect on the plane’s stability under minimum weather conditions, Caron successfully landed the plane. However, on the return leg of the
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Author : Michael Smerconish
language : en
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Flying Blind written by Michael Smerconish and has been published by Running Press Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with History categories.
Moderate-conservative radio talk show host Michael Smerconish asks theuestion: In a post 9-11 world marked by constant threat of terrorism, why ishe Department of Transportation and the Transportation Securitydministration jeopardising airline security by enforcing outdated screeningegulations that cater to political correctness?
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Author : Peter Robison
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Flying Blind written by Peter Robison and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Business & Economics categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER • A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. An "authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies" (New York Times Book Review), from the award-winning reporter for Bloomberg. Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. The planemaker remains a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, as well as a linchpin in the awesome routine of modern air travel. But in 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 killed 346 people. The crashes exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company’s history—and one of the costliest corporate scandals ever. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing? Flying Blind is the definitive exposé of the disasters that transfixed the world. Drawing from exclusive interviews with current and former employees of Boeing and the FAA; industry executives and analysts; and family members of the victims, it reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe. It shows how in the race to beat the competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight. It examines how the company, once a treasured American innovator, became obsessed with the bottom line, putting shareholders over customers, employees, and communities. By Bloomberg investigative journalist Peter Robison, who covered Boeing as a beat reporter during the company’s fateful merger with McDonnell Douglas in the late ‘90s, this is the story of a business gone wildly off course. At once riveting and disturbing, it shows how an iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, threatening an industry and endangering countless lives.
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Author : Kenneth Chastain
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-02
Flying Blind written by Kenneth Chastain and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Fiction categories.
Flying Blind is a novel of one man's hazardous journey in South Asia during the Second World War. Flight Officer Service Pilot Roger Caron joined the army air force even though he was too old to be drafted. He simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to fly military aircraft. Like many men his age, he became hooked on aviation by Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo transatlantic flight. Caron started out flying gliders and pulling weeds for flying lessons. He learned all he could about repairing and piloting airplanes it was the focus of his life. Through a flying buddy, he met a young girl who worked her way into his heart. She had some health issues and was very young, only sixteen, but they ended up getting married anyway. His passion for aviation often kept them apart while he traveled from place to place, advancing his career. So after he joined the army air force and was sent to war in China, Burma, and India, the separation was just another of many. It was made bearable for Caron because he would be flying and flying was in his blood. After spending many months enduring the hazards of war, life back home reached across the seas and grabbed him. The story begins with his landing in Calcutta near the end of September 1944. His treacherous assignment was to fly army cargo planes over the towering Himalayas, referred to as the Hump. As a member of the Army Air Force Air Transport Command, he would be supplying war materials and troops to China in support of the Allied effort against the Japanese invaders. Unfortunately, aircraft of that era were poorly suited for the dangerous weather of the cloud-enshrouded mountains, made worse by the region's lack of sophisticated navigational aids. An equally threatening hazard was the occasional, but lethal Japanese fighter out hunting for unarmed Allied transports. Caron would need skill, tenacity, and a healthy dose of luck to survive his coming ordeal. After a quick turnaround in Calcutta, he found himself a passenger on a C-47 transport on his way to his first duty station in Myitkyina, Burma. This remote outpost had just recently been retaken from the Japanese at great cost by General Stilwell's army. While landing in Myitkyina, Caron's plane was strafed by a Japanese Zero and crash-landed. He and the rest of those onboard survived the ordeal, but it was an ominous welcome to his first duty station in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of Operations. On his first flight over the Hump, Caron was copilot on a war-weary olive drab C-47 piloted by one of his tent mates, Bill Lackey, whom he had first met in Myitkyina. Like Caron, Lackey was from Los Angeles, and they'd quickly become friends. Their volatile cargo was high-octane gasoline carried in fifty-five-gallon drums. On this passage through the towering mountains, ice formed on the wings, hailstones hammered the fuselage, and the plane lost altitude. When the crew was nearly ready to bail out, an updraft shot them up and over the dangerous peaks to safety. This trip foretold what most would be like flying blind through the clouds, on instruments only. On what later became known as Black Friday, Caron and his crew experienced a harrowing ride over the Hump. Upon arrival in Kunming, China, the plane captain tried to delay the return flight to Burma because of the extreme weather and the multitude of maydays called in from other aircraft. Permission was denied, but they were able to stall until the Hump was declared closed. Many planes and crews were lost in the killer storm, and his tent mate and friend, Bill Lackey, was one of those missing. Caron's luck ran out following a promotion to plane captain. Sitting in the left-hand seat of the cockpit, he and his crew flew mules to China where, just before landing, one of the mules stuck its head through a window. Despite concern of the effect on the plane's stability under minimum weather conditions, Caron successfully landed the plane. However, on the return leg of the
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Author : Peter Robison
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-11-18
Flying Blind written by Peter Robison and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Transportation categories.
'The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a great American company. A must-read' Bethany McLean, bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room 'Compelling and richly reported, Flying Blind is about so much more than the sad decline of Boeing and the tragic mistakes that led to the 737 Max disaster. It's also the urgent story of how the almighty profit motive supplanted a culture of engineering excellence in boardrooms across America' Brad Stone, bestselling author of The Everything Store The definitive exposé of how Boeing put profit before passengers, leading to the devastating loss of life in the 737 MAX crashes and the downfall of an American business giant In examining the history of the 737, Flying Blind explores how Boeing's new management degraded a highly-regarded plane with cost-focused mandates and skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus. How Boeing outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training, and how ultimately these failures resulted in the deaths of 346 Boeing passengers. Framed around the 737 MAX crashes, Flying Blind is the definitive exposé that for the first time tells the larger, decades-long story of how a corrupt corporate culture paved the way for a cataclysm that cost lives. 'Vividly written and meticulously researched, Flying Blind is a story everyone - every consumer, every citizen, every worker in every industry - needs to read' Diana B. Henriques, New York Times bestselling author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust 'A gripping narrative and required reading for anyone who wants to understand how one of America's mightiest corporations veered so badly off course' Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of Black Edge
Blind Flight
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Author : Hilary Milton
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic
Release Date : 1982
Blind Flight written by Hilary Milton and has been published by Scholastic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Flying with her uncle in his small plane, 13-year-old Debbie who has been blind for about a year must suddenly take control of the plane when her uncle loses consciousness.
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Author : Matthew Keating
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-17
Flying Blind written by Matthew Keating and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with categories.
Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety: We remove our shoes and covers and send them through the X-beam machine with our workstations (separate receptacles, please), while exposing ourselves to a full body-check. Aircraft travelers in the United States have generally expected these sorts of safety efforts as an assurance that their flight will be protected, directly following the 9/11 fear based oppressor's assaults and resulting dangers in the 21st century. The FAA is in some cases called a "gravestone office": change just comes later a passing -- and typically solely after countless passing's. The receptive idea of the FAA proceeds with today, with many scrutinizing its inability to forestall the accident of two Boeing 737 MAX airplanes and the deficiency of almost 350 lives.
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2022-05-04
Summary Of Peter Robison S Flying Blind written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Boeing’s president, William Allen, was a board member for fifteen years before becoming president in 1945. He never traveled without Triscuits and two pairs of eyeglasses. #2 Boeing was just one of many airplane manufacturers in a business that was dominated by strongwilled founders. The young companies were controlled by dominant, strongwilled founders like Donald Douglas in Los Angeles, Glenn Martin in Baltimore, and James McDonnell in St. Louis. #3 The vertically integrated juggernaut was not to be. Airmail contracts became an early target of President Franklin Roosevelt’s new Democratic administration in 1933, and congressional investigators probed allegations of collusion in awarding them. #4 The British plane maker De Havilland thought it had the right combination. The maker of a celebrated World War II propellerdriven bomber called the Mosquito, De Havilland was already building the world’s first commercial jetliner. But the public was not willing to accept so many fatalities in case of an accident.
Flying Safety
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Flying Safety written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Aeronautics, Military categories.